Muslims in Antebellum Georgia

Prince Among Slaves. Dirs. Andrea Kalin and Bill Duke. 2007. 

Prince Among Slaves his a docudrama based on the book of the same title by historian Terry Alford. It is the true story of Abd al-Rahman Ibrahima, an educated Muslim of elite ancestry, who was captured and sold to English slavers, and then enslaved in Mississippi in 1788. 

Daughters of the Dust. Dir. Julie Dash. 1991.

An African-American family struggles with a painful past and an uncertain future, as some members prepare to leave their island home to start new lives on the mainland. There is a character named Bilali Muhammad in the film (portrayed by Umar Abdurrahamn), an obvious nod to the Sapelo Island patriarch. Set in 1902 on a Georgia sea island. (112 minutes). 

The Language You Cry In. Dirs. Alvaro Toepke, Angel Serrano. 1998. 

This moving documentary shows how a song passed down through the generations connects one Georgia Geechee family to a Mende village in West Africa. (52 minutes).